What Is Love Quotes

Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is.

I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.

I will love you forever" swears the poet. I find this easy to swear too. "I will love you at 4:15 pm next Tuesday" - Is that still as easy?

I never met a word I didn't love

I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.

You know it’s a bad sign when the theme song from Titanic describes your relationship.

I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.

Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.

#1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.

To make one, there must be two.

Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

She says you're not truly human until you've had your heart broken and you've broken someone's heart.

Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow.

Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.

I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell.

The goal is to learn to be nurturing with yourself so you can feel free.

In our community, we have a duty to strengthen the weakest among us to build a better society.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

What makes us threaten the things we want most?

Nowadays he doesn't think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her, describe any aspect of her, the weigh of her wrist on his heart during the night.

Don't love anything that can be taken away.

I'm so in love with you I can't stand up.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on

At the heart of memory, is the stillness of time.

I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.

The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.

When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.

He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love.